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Giardino - Restaurant group's shares poised for breakout

June 2003

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Another restaurant group poised for a re-rating is Giardino, owner of a chain of counter service restaurants located mainly in  shopping centres around the UK.  Armed with an experienced board, a top notch track record and an aggressive expansion strategy, Giardinofloated on AIM in the summer of 2000.  But it hit trouble last year in the shape of intense competition from the coffee shops, forcingthe group to put the brakes on its expansion program and focus its attention on squeezing better returns from existing outlets.  Its latest results showed this back-to-basics strategy is starting to bear fruit with like-for-like sales returning to positive territory. With some of the weaker coffee shop competition now exiting ...

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